بس
1 بَسٌّ signifies The act of breaking: or breaking in pieces:
syn. حَطْمٌ. (
TA.)
b2: [And The act of mixing: see بَسِيسَةٌ. This, or the former, is probably the primary signification.]
b3: [and hence,
app.,] بَسَّهُ,
aor. ـُ
inf. n. بَسٌّ, (
M,
Msb,) He broke it, crumbled it, or bruised or brayed it; said of wheat, &c.; thus making it what is termed بَسِيسَة: (
Msb:) or he mixed it, namely, سَويق [or meal of parched barley or wheat], and flour, &c., with clarified butter, or with olive-oil; thus making it what is termed بسِيسَة: (
M:) or he moistened it, namely, سَوِيق, and flour, with a little water; (
ISk,
Msb;) but making it more moist than one does in the action termed لَتٌّ: (Yaakoob, cited in the
S; and
ISk, in the
Msb:) or بَسٌّ signifies the making, or preparing, بسِيسَة, by stirring about, or moistening, سَوِيق, or flour, or ground أَقِط, with clarified butter, or with olive-oil; (
S,
K;) after which it is eaten, without being cooked. (
S.)
b4: [And hence the saying in the
Kur lvi. 5,] وَبُسَّتِ الجِبَالُ بَسًّا And the mountains shall be crumbled with a vehement crumbling, (
Lh,
M,
A,
K,) like flour, and سَوِيق, (
A,) and become earth: (
Fr,
K:) or become dust cleaving to the earth: (
AO,
M,
TA:) or be levelled: (
M,
TA:) or mixed with the dust: (
Zj,
M,
TA:) or reduced to powder and scattered in the wind. (
TA.) بَسِيسَةٌ Wheat, &c., broken, or crumbled, or bruised: (
Msb:) or سَوِيق [or meal of parched barley or wheat], and flour, &c., mixed with clarified butter, or with olive-oil: (
M:) or what is stirred about with olive-oil, or with clarified butter, and not wetted [with water]: (
Lh,
M:) or سويق, or flour, or ground أَقِط, stirred about, or moistened, with clarified butter, or with oliveoil; (
S,
K;) after which it is eaten, without being cooked: (
S:) or سويق, and flour, moistened with a little water, (
ISk,
Msb,) but more moist than such as is prepared in the manner termed لَتٌّ; (Yaakoob, cited in the
S; and
ISk, in the
Msb;) and used as travelling-provision: (
TA:) and bread dried and pounded, and [mixed with water so that it is] drunk like as سويق is drunk: (
M,
K: *)
IDrd thinks it to be what is termed فَتُوث: also barley mixed with date-stones, for camels: (
M,
TA:) or,
accord. to
As, anything that one mixes with another thing: such as سويق with اقط, which one then moistens with fresh butter: and such as barley with date-stones, which one then moistens, for camels: (
Msb, *
TA:)
pl. بُسُسٌ, (
IAar,
TA,) which is explained in the
K as signifying messes of سويق moistened, or stirred about with water, &c. (أَسْوِقَةٌ مَلْتُوتَةٌ). (
TA.)
